How to create a potato ball inside a potato box with a piece of potato

To celebrate its 500th YouTube video upload, video recipe blog
Food Wishes
has shared with the world a unique skill -- how to create a potato
ball inside a potato box using a single piece of potato.

It might sound pointless, but the result is fantastic and this
is the first video to document the process on YouTube.

It involves taking a single potato cube and cutting into it to
create what looks like a tiny potato cage containing a sphere that
is too big to exit the cage without breaking the frame.It's a piece
of carving trickery that is often attempted by amateur
carpenters.

First of all you need to create a large-ish cube of potato,
measuring around 4cm cubed. You then need to create incisions about
an eighth of an inch in from the edges of every side so as to
create the outline of the potato box's frame. Once you've done
this, you need to take a slightly curved knife and return to each of those facets,
cutting out the corners with your knife turned down at a slight
angle. This will start to create the shape of a sphere within the
box.

Once all of the corners are removed, you can carefully run the
knife between the cube's frame and the ball it contains to ensure
that the potato ball is separated from the potato box. Once you can
move it and spin it, you just need to trim the ball down to ensure
that it is smooth and has space to move. Et voila! You have your
very own potato ball inside a potato box made out of a single piece
of potato.

If you are feeling really extravagant, you could create a lot of
these little potato carvings and deep fry them to make the world's
most time-consuming chips.

Olivia Solon is News Editor at Wired.co.uk. You can follow
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